{"id":77,"date":"2019-01-25T14:48:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellow-glass.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2019-11-27T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:12:08","slug":"25-01-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellow-glass.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/25-01-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"25\/01\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Distance of the Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘At one time, according to Sir George H. Darwin, the Moon was very close to the Earth.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Completed in 2013 this illustration project was an attempt to visualise the Italo Calvino short story ‘the Distance of the Moon.’ The story describes a time when the Moon and Earth were, to a much greater extent than today, closely related, dependant and interconnected. Crews would sail out to meet the money where they would harvest a culinary delicacy from its surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘How well I know! \u2014 old Qfwfq cried,\u2013 the rest of you can\u2019t remember, but I can. We had her on top of us all the time, that enormous Moon: when she was full \u2014 nights as bright as day, but with a butter-colored light \u2014 it looked as if she were going to crush us; when she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind; and when she was waxing, she came forward with her horns so low she seemed about to stick into the peak of a promontory and get caught there. But the whole business of the Moon\u2019s phases worked in a different way then: because the distances from the Sun were different, and the orbits, and the angle of something or other, I forget what; as for eclipses, with Earth and Moon stuck together the way they were, why, we had eclipses every minute: naturally, those two big monsters managed to put each other in the shade constantly, first one, then the other. ‘<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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moon – sea, 2013
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the moon and the sea, 2013
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pull, 2013
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zinc cliffs, 2013
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the distance of the moon, 2013
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Distance of the Moon, 2013
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